Evan Bartlett

The Premier League table 20 years ago today 🤯 Since then it’s been a story of miserable decay for Charlton Athletic After nine winless games in League One, fans are just desperate for something - anything - to believe in, writes @danielstorey85 #CAFC inews.co.uk/sport/football…

Crystal Palace is rooted in one type of player: mavericks. Any generation of #CPFC supporters would say that is why they love watching them. Yet that unpredictability has evaporated in Oliver Glasner’s final season, with supporters' bored and exhausted groans a matchday staple. inews.co.uk/sport/football…

🤐 Ashes gagging order The ECB has ordered counties to cancel all media interviews with players who were in Australia over the winter Exclusive by @StocksC_cricket 👇 inews.co.uk/sport/cricket/…

Twelve months ago Sir Jim Ratcliffe cut Man Utd's £40k annual donation to an organisation that helps former players in need. Now #MUFC's Man of the Match in the 1968 European Cup final is strugging to pay his medical bills ✍️ @PeteHall86 inews.co.uk/sport/football…

Football supporters are angrier at matches than I can ever remember. Why does it feel like lots of people don’t like the game they love? Column. inews.co.uk/sport/football…

'Rugby league remains strong in its traditional markets, but relevance in the likes of London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool has been difficult. Stepping outside its own echo chamber is the eternal challenge.' inews.co.uk/sport/rugby-le… @TheiPaperSport

Bradford Bulls are one of Super League’s most successful teams, but the manner of their promotion and the state of Odsal Stadium have proven polarising. @TheiPaperSport inews.co.uk/sport/rugby-le…

A huge honour to be nominated for The Hugh McIlvanney Award for Sports Journalist of the Year at the annual @PressAwardsuk. Everybody who starts writing about football (and is older than they would like) knows that name as one of the absolute greats.

This isn’t about players drinking or even Brook lying. It’s about a team culture that made this PR fiasco possible. That rests with people above Brook - namely the coach and the managing director. Piece for @TheiPaperSport inews.co.uk/sport/cricket/…

“Sideways and backwards, everywhere we go” is the new football ground hit. Supporters are getting sick of risk-averse football that they believe goes nowhere and achieves nothing. inews.co.uk/sport/football…

EXCL: Understand Glasner has fallen down #MUFC list, with availability not changing that. Told De Zerbi and Tuchel current top picks, with interest in Luis Enrique not cooling because club doesn’t want him, but the other way round. More here 👇 inews.co.uk/sport/football…

EXCL: Understand Michael Carrick is among the candidates to become interim Manchester United manager until the end of the season. List still being drawn up, but former midfielder a current frontrunner. #MUFC inews.co.uk/sport/football…

There is a growing social media trend: large, verified accounts championing Mason Greenwood. It is morally abhorrent when everybody knows the complexities. Column. inews.co.uk/sport/football…

Sorry, it's time for Ollie Pope to go. Picking him this week was a clear sign England have lost the plot on this Ashes tour. Piece for @TheiPaperSport inews.co.uk/sport/cricket/…

Tottenham have asked fans to remove an LGBT+ flag from the North stand Slavia Prague made the request over "security concerns", suggesting their fans could target it. Understand Spurs initially pushed back but have relocated it to SW-corner #thfc inews.co.uk/sport/football…

Piece for @TheiPaperSport from the Gabba on England’s latest humbling defeat. A team drunk on their own hype. inews.co.uk/sport/cricket/…

Feel like a mug for thinking England had a chance in this Ashes series? Join the club. Piece for @TheiPaperSport inews.co.uk/sport/cricket/…

Exclusive: The Rugby Football League (RFL) is considering an offer from an Australian promoter to play a hybrid rugby match against England’s national rugby union team, The i Paper has learned. inews.co.uk/sport/rugby-le… @TheiPaperSport

I am calling on David Hinton, the CEO of South East Water, to resign. 24,000 properties have endured three days of South East Water’s chaotic emergency response and woeful communication. It’s an utter disgrace and a total failure of leadership by David Hinton. Every announcement by the company over the last few days telling customers when water supplies would be restored has been wrong. We’ve had endless announcements each giving a different time for water supplies returning. Initially residents in Tunbridge Wells were told to collect bottled water from another town. Then bottled water stations were only set up in central Tunbridge Wells on my instigation. This incident has caused chaos, anger and anxiety for people. Primary and secondary schools are closed. GP surgeries and civil buildings are closed. Businesses have been unable to trade on one of the busiest trading days of the year. Restaurants and hotels have lost thousands of pounds. Care homes and vulnerable people have been left without water for hours, with many contacting me personally to get bottled water delivered to them because South East Water’s phone lines were too busy. Roads have been gridlocked for hours as people queued to access water distribution sites. When I was elected last year, David Hinton gave personal and public assurances that the lessons of previous water outages in Tunbridge Wells had been learnt. In 2022, water was cut off for 6 days over Christmas; we’ve been here before and he vowed to fix things so it couldn’t happen again. We now know that is not true. From the failure to provide sufficient resilience in the local network, to the terrible communications with the community, to putting in place any emergency response plan – the CEO hasn’t kept his promises to the people of Tunbridge Wells. David Hinton must resign, and if he had any integrity he would do so immediately.

After hours at Aston Martin, a special visitor walks through the doors inews.co.uk/sport/formula-…